Ukraine

You appear to have a textbook view on this, which ignores practically. People with missing parts are people, and are useful, and still need to be used.

The tradition for this goes back to and beyond Captain Hook and peg leg Sam.
Like I said before, its not his capability that I questioned - if a double amputee can compete in the Olympics and be competitive, thats pretty strong evidence that prosthetics are pretty darn good nowadays. It was the optics and how it can be spun by opponents of Ukraine.

If Ukraine wasn't having recruitment problems, this would be a different story.